IOBit Toolbox Really is a “Must Have” for Your Toolkit
The IOBit Tool box utility was a pleasant surprise find for me today. A fan (shout out to Erika Haydon) asked about a free antivirus suite that IOBit produces. I had never heard of it or IOBit so I decided to take a look at their site and see what they have to offer. They have the standard set of maintenance software products: antivirus, defrag, systems boosters, etc. Wandering the site I was about to leave when I came across their Toolbox. Being a sucker for “toolbox” software I downloaded it and am very happy that I did.
The Toolbox is a set of over 20 tools that actually matter! You do not have to install the Toolbox. You can just throw it on a thumb drive and run it on any Windows system.
They have the standard set of disk cleaning and registry defragmenting every other piece of shareware has, but it has a couple of additions that are very helpful. It includes:
- Undelete – to recover deleted files
- Empty Folder Scanner – to delete all of those empty folders we all create
- Smart RAM – to clean out RAM while the system is running. It freed 500MB that my system had needlessly allocated.
- Shortcut Fixer – to find and delete shortcuts to nowhere
- Internet Booster – to tweak your browser configurations to make them run faster.
I have been a fan of the guys at Piriform that created CCleaner and Recuva for years, but I think that this package trumps them.
You can download the FREE Toolbox here: http://www.iobit.com/toolbox.html#toollist
Please tell us what you think good or bad about your experiences with this Toolbox.
4 Responses to IOBit Toolbox Really is a “Must Have” for Your Toolkit
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I had to uninstall IObit tool bar as other bar because they occupied too much space living less for operating and for this I ask: Is it possible to replace the bar for an icon for fast opening the bar or minimize it and we can use them we we need them?
I don’t know. I haven’t used it, and frankly when I did a Google search to research the tool bar all the results were about uninstalling it.
In general in Internet Explorer you can show/ hide tool bars by simply RIGHT clicking anywhere in the “bar” area and you’ll get a list of tool bars that are available. You can simply add a check to the tool bars you like, and uncheck the toolbars you don’t want to see. It takes half a second to do so this might be an option for you.
Cheers,
Eli
About your comments above, this is a tool BOX not a toolbar. Many useful utilities put together.
I surprised you didn’t know about iobit. They’re the Company that was allegedly stealing malwarebytes malware definitions for use in their now obsolete is360 security product. They make some pretty nice progs, though.